A pitched battle against Gov. Hochul’s sweeping new housing plan for New York is starting to pick up momentum in Eastern Queens.
More than 150 homeowners from widely disparate neighborhoods packed a meeting room in Douglaston last Friday for a forum that featured civic leaders vowing to stop her controversial proposal for building 800,000 new units in the state to fix the region’s chronic housing shortage.
Civic leaders from Cambria Heights, South Jamaica and Addisleigh Park spoke alongside community activists from Whitestone, Bayside and Broadway-Flushing against the plan that would allow Albany to upscale local zoning laws without local consent.
The meeting was an unusual display of unity between racially different neighborhoods in Northeast and Southeast Queens — and a warning to the governor that single-family homeowners in the city were ready to join forces with communities on Long Island and Westchester to oppose the sweeping plan.
“We moved to our communities because we wanted a certain quality of life for our families,” Bill Perkins of the Rosedale Civic Association told the forum.
“It’s not a race thing,” he said. “It’s not a where-you-live thing.”
Under the new proposal introduced last month in Albany, the state would, among other things, require every town and county in the state to build 3 percent more housing stock every three years or face fines and to rezone a half-mile radius around every MTA train and subway station in the region for greater density.
Those mandates would also include legalizing basement apartments and small, backyard houses (called accessory dwelling units or ADUs) where they are currently prohibited.
The goal of the plan is to create more affordable housing by requiring areas traditionally reserved for low-density, one-family homes to drop longtime restrictions against the construction of apartment houses and other multifamily dwellings.
“When I drive around Jamaica and think about it, I wonder, where are these apartment buildings going to go?” said the Rev. Carlene Thorbs, chair of Community Board 12 (who emphasized she was speaking on her own behalf and not for the board).
“We have a front yard, we have a backyard, we have a driveway,” she said. “This is how we want our communities to stay.”
The governor’s Housing Compact has been met with hostility from the nearby suburbs of New York City, as well. Civic leaders from Nassau and Yonkers attended the event to pick up support for resisting the plan one called “worse than what you think.”
“The conversation we always hear is that ... ‘Oh, it’s affordable housing,” said Thorbs. “No, it is not,” she said. “Not when a studio is $1,700.”
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Seems like some kind of communist uprising to me.
She wants your Gas Stove too !
It's Fed money, meaning American taxpayers in the 57 states pay to subsidize AGENDA 2030.
"Obummma reference 57"
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Build bbbbbbaby build! That's the American way.
These people sound like Sitting Bull, or Crazy Horse when they tried to resist the European invasion and theft of their land.
Nobody can stop the wheels of progress. Socialists have tried in the past, but they were defeated.
Sad ...
Civics in NYC like this !
Former Black NYC teacher shamed by DOE head over his military service: lawsuit
https://nypost.com/2023/03/04/former-nyc-teacher-shamed-by-doe-head-over-his-military-service-lawsuit/
YIMBY government housing doctrine = slavery. in case you haven't figured it out yet
Building increased housing supply that only the rich can afford is quite a political strategy.
"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."
NIMBY vs YIMBY = (Freedom vs Big Government Intervention)
The Biden recession is already here they had to change the definition so people wouldn't realize it too many people are still asleep.
2+2= 5
New Yorks Next Step shoud be to Fight Biden’s Border Crisis.
ESG is a threat to the American economy and the individual freedoms that our country is built upon.
Liberal math confuses me.
The State is in financial ruin and expansion is not smart at the moment
Rather her than that dimwit Trumpanzee from Long Island.
""building 800,000 new units in the state to fix the region’s chronic housing shortage""
No housing shortage exists, liberal democrat bastards created this problem !
The problem is every f_ckup in the country and 3rd word is fleeing to New York for free stuff.
End the sanctuary policy and free stuff for illegals and you will fix the housing and a good part of the crime and affordability for our own people.
The bleeding heart, open arms shit is killing us!!
Note how Hochul uses the words: "fix the region’s chronic housing shortage"
"Region" is the key word here
Translation: She don't want all these people migrating upstate so shes pushing to contain and house them here. Good luck with Bayside, Douglaston and Little Neck. The war veterans and Chinese wont like this and will fight like hornets, just wait and watch!!
Its everything Chinese left China and whites left hells like 1970s John Lindsay era Bushwick to get away with. They especially don't like inner city HUD housed garbage robbing and hitting them in the head with hammers. ---Oh how Hochul sure cant have that starting in Albany's upper class suburbs or Lake Canandaigua.
I'm guessing 800,000 government housing units wold be:
1- Roosevelt Island stacked 5 high
2- TWO 3 floors of barracks on every block.
3-An additional apartment in every private building, basement or roof in Brooklyn and Queens.
The smart thing to do is rent or buy every available building in Dayton Ohio, Detroit and ship them there. Hand them a Amtrak or bus trip to Canada or Plattsburg where you have over 400,000 empty homes and apartment buildings and perhaps another 400,000 in foreclosure.
It be 1/4 the cost and can be implemented near instantly
No need to house destitute, crazys, alcoholics and welfare brats who will never work, too lazy or stupid to work in the most expensive real estate in the country.
-Angry Taxpayer
When will the voters be smart enough to clean house ?
They are stuck in the progressive left wing trap.
Don't worry NY Hochul has another 3.5+ years to destroy what's left of you.
Oh the Sheeple are talking back...
Stay off my lawn Clown !
Most other State Goverments know how to help advance housing. Cut Taxes...
President DeSantis.... I mean soon to be President DeSantis....is doing great things in the Florida housing market.
No.
You can keep your globalism.
Decent people do not want:
A widening Gap Between the Haves and the Have-Nots
A loss of Domestic Companies and Jobs.
Unequal Power and the Rise of the Multinational Corporations.
Loss of Cultural Identity.
There is too much money to be made by certain individuals... #BLUEANON
People are getting very tired of protecting Biden's 10% !
NY Dem voters got their woke-up call ! It's ESG for everyone....
Yes, People are protecting their homes and communities from over development. #2030 #ESG
The funniest thing to me is how white liberal Gender Studies dropouts with nose rings can decide and act like everyone else are the “racists” when they literally believe that minority groups are too dumb to do anything for themselves.
Just see the article above about the LIRR at Jamaica Station... The Hochul Mandate is ridiculous and wrong-thinking. Quite frighteningly stupid, actually.
Absolutely, Queens is aspirational, not racial. Folks come here for their kids. Both Eric Adams and Colin Powell spent their teens in Queens. We top the NYS Math League. Our kids are the smartest in the entire state.
Obviously a democrat Doctrine
" Rev. Carlene Thorbs"
Wonder how she votes every election.
Here in the great swamp of Florida, you are free to say what you want, as long as you register yourself as a blogger and don’t say anything critical of Meatball Ron.
It's not the "far left". It's just the left.
Both Eric Adams and Colin Powell spent their teens in Queens.
That don't mean much, Adams was a screw-up gang banger and still speaks like one.
This "Adams has dyslexia" is bullshit made up by his press and public relations spin experts.
Dyslexia doesn't cause stupidity and inability to talk like a somewhat educated human.
Likely a closet gay too, and according to his speech last week on how god sent him to be mayor, how separation of church and state should never be, Constitution is wrong, for-fathers were wrong, history is wrong, also proves he's a also nutter and a communist.
That s'plains alot of his issues and oh-boy you can bet this piece of shit has issues and skeletons hidden somewhere.
How many things did Adams as a Queens gang member and what "initiations" did he perform to become a rank member? ....Hmm?
Says hes religious, then marches on gay day yet denies hes bi-or gay.
I cant wait till some of his special buddy's and criminal hip hop friends at the private nightclub 2AM (near every morning) get in a beef and rat him out!
NYC need recall !!!
I thought TrumpTurd fixed all of this?
NY Tax Payer said...
More and more people are speaking up and out. I’m so happy and relieved !
Bad part is people from New York are not the nicest people, in fact most of them are rude. A lot of them are moving to Florida, bringing their bad personalities with them. Please move to California.
Hopefully the world is going sane again.
Good for the smoothbrained tard New Yorkers they keep voting Blue No matter who !
How's that socialist paradise coming along ?
@ Kitara said...
It's easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they've been fooled.
Time to walk away the dems left the middle class on the curb !
Mao would be jealous.
Even as a YIMBY I still want community oversight of development, not it being forced from upon high for well-connected developers.
"dems left the middle class on the curb"
Thats a understatement.
Dems want them all dead or run out of town because most your middle class are white who own 90 % of the 1 and 2 family homes (and wont share them)
Why do you think dems let most the criminals out of jail and actually protect them?
Answer: To go around our rights and get the job done. As in completely destroy New York and replace it with their vision of some kind of socialist society where everybody is equal, must earn equal regardless of how hard they wish to work or not work. Wanna get stoned and play with a cell phone all day? No problem somebody else will pay for you !!
Wanna get stoned on pot all day and burn your brain no problem. Claim disabled and get your free medical marijuana, cellphone, food, healthcare, electric, heat and housing too !!
Stupid New York and California voters finally got what they asked for.
I think the water may be poisoned, how can so many people be so stupid, act like sheep, and believe everything they are told.
Many will be slaughtered this summer when all the criminals have warm weather, scooters, stolen cars, more homemade 3D printed guns.
@ "how can so many people be so stupid" Ask some of them - Kittarra, ron, rob, Blue Anons etc.
@"Many will be slaughtered this summer when all the criminals have warm weather, scooters, stolen cars, more homemade 3D printed guns."
Take a hike, you communist!
What ya got against guns? Everyone should have'em. Only Marxists like yourself want to control what "We The People" should have.
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